Love the builders, love the idea of tooling for Farcaster, but not positive that this is the tooling that the Nouns community needs right now. As Toady mentioned, I don't think there are enough active contributors to Nouns governance at present to require such granular notifications, and I'm skeptical that notifications would bring new people in who aren't already participating.

That said, even if this particular tool may not be the ideal fit for the current moment, I deeply appreciate the team's desire to contribute and build. More proposals from BotFrens, please!

For: 0 | Against: 1 | Abstain: 0

+against Not againts with the idea, but we have already held a farcaster 3*100k prop house round and we want deliverables from the three winners before giving funding to projects in farcaster again. — @0xishal

via @zeroweight

The outlined capabilities packaged in a notification service doesn’t strike me to be specifically in demand, solve a problem or a significant unlock for engagement and growth.

I think the BotFrens team is worth betting on ⌐◨-◨

i appreciate the general idea around this prop and i'm obviously very supportive of leaning into farcaster further.

that said, i can't quite vote FOR this prop. as much as i trust andrei is a good bulider (and love that he now works at agora?) i don't have the full trust yet that he's really in tune with nouns' users needs in a deep way

the things to subscribe as listed here are just events from the nouns dao smart contracts but aren't really descriptions of what users care about. like as described in the vwrs by others what i would ACTUALLY subscribe to is something close to like "you haven't voted on prop X and there's only 3 hours left" or "prop Y is ending up being a contentious vote with only 2 votes in vote differential." in the auction side of things i would love to be notified about not just an auction being started or settled but something like "there was a new nouns buyer Z for today's auction"

ofc there's a way of viewing this prop as this is just the beginning and they'll iterate to those more real user needs but tbh i don't quite have that level of trust given how this prop is written. appreciate the proposal and i might suggest iterating deeply with lilfrog on a prop that includes subscriptions that nouns users would really care for. thanks again.

tbh I’m not sure if there are enough nouns governors active on FC to justify investing in this infra, despite the fairly low price (it’s still like 0.5 eth per active voter.) But on the other hand, I do think that we should be leaning into farcaster in every way possible, and I think Andrei is a great builder for the ecosystem to retain, so I will vote FOR to see what happens. Would want to see some meaningful adoption and regular use by nouns voters and perhaps integration with other governance apps like Camp before funding again.

The nouniverse has voted through $NOGS ⌐◨-◨

FOR: 30
AGAINST: 1

33600 $NOGS have been shared among the participants.

VWR from Farcaster:

@pip: would also like to see candidate activity subscription if possible

@jrboots.eth: Go be awesome, our fearless Nouns buidlers

I'd use these notifications myself, although as many others I'm somewhat on the edge on this one - but seeing as the team has proven itself already as builders & the ask is more or less reasonable, I'm happy to take a chance on this.

Would love for the team to optimize for what seems to gain most traction with users, as opposed to a "ship & done" type of deal. Especially interested in everything that makes governance easier - Good luck!

Im not crazy about this prop. I feel like its easy to say "lets make farcaster notifs!" but then not really having a good sense of what users want on a deeper level. Im not quite sure who the intended user is tbh.

That said, 17e is a modest enough ask for me to take a chance bc even though this product could be dead in the water, i think there is also a scenario where it become hugely successful. And in those cases i believe its better for nouns to err on the side of optimism.

I just urge the team to actually figure out what people want, not just ship a spec and call it a day.

For: 3 | Against: 0 | Abstain: 0

For

• 0xmonografia | "Like Nerman, but for Farcaster – it sounds good! I'd love to see other applications built on top of this notification system."
• ok_lex_ | "I think it’s very useful tool if we’re trying to move all activities to Farcaster, which I guess we are. The most important for me is keeping on with proposal voting, would find helpful those notifications"

The question on my mind is this: Will a Nouns bot lead to three new Nouns purchasers? If so, this proposal is a clear yes and we come out ahead. If not, it may still be a yes, but for reasons other than inspiring new people to participate in Nouns auctions.

I am personally in favor. I think that this will be great for helping people understand the nuts and bolts of how Nouns operates better. I've wanted a bot like this myself (particularly proposal notifications) and believe that others would benefit from it.

I would note that the work involved in building a Farcaster Client is different than the work involved in building a Farcaster Bot. While both require expertise in Farcaster, they're quite different systems and skillsets. (As one simple example: A Farcaster client is majority frontend work. A Farcaster bot is majority backend work.) These differences are especially true when this bot seeks to expand awareness of Nouns more so than offer a Nouns-specific place for people in the community to congregate.

One big feature request to the team: Let people subscribe to notifications for auctions of specific traits. If someone really wants a certain trait, they have to check back every day for it. Being able to be notified of e.g. all Cloud heads or accessories could be a significant driver of auction buyers.

In addition, proposal vote start/end doesn't tell me a key piece of information: Am I running out of time to vote? A proposal vote end warning (e.g. 24 hours left to vote) would be very helpful as well.

If this passes (and I hope it does), before building you should check with a few Nouns community members about the bot features that they'd find useful. Your list captures the broad strokes, but the actual features look somewhat different.

Similar thoughts. We just made a 300k investment to 3 teams, would love to see what they put together first before funding kore possibilities. Funding over time based on outcomes is better than funding lots all at once.

The number of people voting in proposals is too low to justify adding features to enable an even smaller subset of users who are on Warpcast but not voting on proposals.

We should wait for other already funded Nouns Farcaster clients to be built and tested.

I like the concept and team, as well as investing in nounish farcaster tools in general, but price seems excessive tbh. As someone working on building a nounish farcaster client for $100k, I wouldn’t invest over half of our budget in this feature. I also think the community will have a better idea of how and where they want to invest in additional farcaster initiatives after the 3 mo client sprint ends in 41 days. Nonetheless, would support this if it were a smaller request such as 7 ETH. Perhaps this could be paired with the upcoming onchain summer to (hopefully) subsidize cost as well.

Wasn't really into it, specially because I feel the requested funding seems a bit too much.
Specially since we already gave $300k for this, for which this could apply afaik.

That said, I'm going to vote yes, because either way I want builders building on top of nouns. And this is something I would actually benefit and appreciate.

Voting "For", not super convinced, but hope the team can prove wrong on my doubts by building this and coming back for more once this succeeds.

reposting my positive signal!

I'd love to see VWR as a subscription option so I can be notified anytime someone adds commentary on a proposals -- this is the signal I most care about in nouns. Aside from that, I think the team is strong and the milestones / budget are refreshingly reasonable. Farcaster has been a great way to keep in touch with the nouns ecosystem and I'm happy to see more integrations funded

supportive of great builders building new tooling to drive nouns participation.

By embracing Farcaster, Nouns has been pioneering how communication and coordination happens on a decentralized social network. This software will increase Governance engagement and will enhance Nouns efforts to have everyone who is interested, to stay up to date on what is currently happening. Built by a proven Nounish team with minimal technological risk can make us confident that this proposal will deliver.

The Nouncil has spoken.

We discuss all Nouns proposals every week in our Discord https://discord.gg/fdjJpMeV6K. The calls are public and all are welcome!

You can find previous call recordings here: https://nouncil.notion.site/30328df718424f17a623859018497fc2?v=806b5234a2a34b619c3d5028bcd879f0&pvs=4

Nouncil has to abstain from voting on the proposal due to the poll failing to meet the required vote threshold. While there was support for the proposal, with members appreciating the added utility to Farcaster and recognizing the team's proven track record and innovative approach, some concerns were raised. These included the cost of the project and the preference to see results from previously funded Farcaster clients before committing additional funds.

Individual Votes:

FOR - 15 VOTES

robotfishgirl | "adding more utility to farcaster is always gonna be a win in my book. Proven team, low cost, great idea. Easy yes."

benbodhi | "All for the functionality, however it seems a bit pricey but who am I to judge. I’d use a few of these notis. I like how it’s open to anyone configuring which notis they want personally. I typically watch nerman in discord already, so I’m not entirely sold on moving this kind of notification to farcaster personally, but I see the value in it of course and think many could benefit from this."

AGAINST - 9 VOTES

imwylin | "not opposed in spirit. would prefer to see the results of the 3 clients Nouns funded for $100k each before finding more farcaster stuff though"

ABSTAINS - 6 VOTES

BIG fan of the team .

much of this sounds redundant and would prefer to judge this after the farcaster clients are built. since the assumption is nouns traffic should flow there? AND even have much of this built in??

All for the functionality, however it seems a bit pricey… but who am I to judge? I’d use a few of these notis. I like how it’s open to anyone configuring which notis they want personally. I typically watch nerman in discord already, so I’m not entirely sold on moving this kind of notification to farcaster personally, but I see the value in it of course and think many could benefit from this.